Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian